Chapter 6 Chapter 6 The Secret in the Oil Lamp

On the outskirts of the city, the sun is shining brightly. Miss Lan suddenly sat up from the ground and called out, "Little Lake, Little Lake!" "What?" a confused voice. Following the sound and finding someone, Miss Lan ran over quickly, dragging his arm, and shouted, "Get up, Xiaohu, get up, let's go back!" "Isn't it still early?" Jiang Xiaohu rubbed his eyes, looked at her puzzledly, and then gradually turned into surprise, "Your face... looks not very good..." "Get up, go back and talk!" The silent attic. A beam of sunlight shines on the old floor through the gap, and then falls to the ground through the gap between the floors, like a piece of yellow gold.The floor was a little loose from stepping on, and the dust fell down along the cracks, and many dust particles flew in the air reflecting the sunlight.

Miss Lan dragged Jiang Xiaohu to climb up quickly, and soon, the two arrived at the upstairs room. The room was really empty. The altar, censer, and spiritual tablet are all gone! Seeing her standing there silent for a long time, Jiang Xiaohu was puzzled: "What are you doing here?" "Let's see who is playing tricks," Miss Lan suddenly smiled, "Xiaohu, we don't have to be afraid anymore." "I'm not afraid," Jiang Xiaohu looked around the room inexplicably, seeming to remember something, "This is what you said last night..." Miss Lan nodded: "I saw a lot of spirits from the Jiang family here yesterday."

"What about the spirit card?" "It's gone." "Disappeared?" Jiang Xiaohu was extremely surprised, after thinking about it, he wasn't too scared, "I wake up outside the city every day, there might really be ghosts in this house, but my surname is Jiang, and they didn't harm me... ..." "It's not that there are ghosts, but there are tricks," Miss Lan interrupted him with a solemn expression, "They didn't harm you because the time hasn't come yet." Jiang Xiaohu rubbed his head, not believing: "If it's not a ghost, then the spirit card..."

"Of course it was moved away." Miss Lan let go of his hand and stamped her feet. "This place has been empty for more than ten years. Look at the thick dust on the ground. No matter who steps on it, it will leave marks." Jiang Xiaohu nodded: "But there are no footprints on the ground, it doesn't look like someone has been there." Miss Lan shook her head: "No, that person must have scared me away yesterday, then came back to remove those things, and then cleaned up the traces on the ground." Speaking of which, she proudly raised her eyebrows: "But he didn't It should even remove the traces I left, how can a ghost have so many things?"

Jiang Xiaohu's eyes flickered slightly: "That lamp..." Before he could finish speaking, Miss Lan smiled mysteriously again: "Yes, let's go to see the lights." The old-fashioned oil lamp is still on the ground in good condition, the lamp shell is old, and there is oozing oil inside. Jiang Xiaohu looked at it carefully: "Isn't this good?" Miss Lan shook her head: "Someone touched it." "how do you know?" "I remember that when I was sleeping yesterday, the head of the unicorn on the lamp stand was facing the window, but look, it is facing our bed now."

Jiang Xiaohu opened his mouth wide, and it took him a long time to realize: "Someone really moved our lamp." "good." "But this lamp is too broken, even the pawn shop refuses to accept it, what is he doing with it?" "Stupid, of course it's a trick, otherwise why would it go out for no reason?" Miss Lan clapped her hands and stood up happily, "I guess he added some salt water to it, I heard that the salt water will sink under the oil. , once the oil on it burns out, the lamp will automatically turn off, and the rest is all water, but we can’t really see it at night, only because there is a lot of oil left in it, so we feel strange.”

"But he knew that as long as we looked closely during the day, we would find flaws, so after he made us unconscious and moved us to the wild, he came back and poured out the water and replaced the oil, so the unicorn's head turned." After finishing speaking, she pulled Jiang Xiaohu to the door, and pointed to a mass of wet spots under the window: "Look, I remember that we didn't pour water here at all, but the soil here is wet." Jiang Xiaohu's eyes widened and he was stunned. for a long time. "It makes sense," he finally came back to his senses, and looked at Miss Lan with great admiration, "My wife is really smart!"

Miss Lan was proud: "As long as he's a human and not a ghost, it's easy to say. Although I don't know what his identity is, I saw him last night and guessed a little." "who is it?" "Being able to play tricks under my nose without anyone noticing, he must have good qinggong. Most of the good qinggong masters in the world are taught by Qian Shou. He is probably taught by Qian Shou." "Thousand Hands?" Jiang Xiaohu was even more surprised, shaking his head, "Aren't they just stealing things? I'm so poor that I can't even eat enough. They will lose money if they follow me."

"Don't forget, they love to steal treasures," Miss Lan went to the bed and sat down, frowning, "He has been following you for so long without doing anything, and he tried his best to scare me away. That baby from your house is here." Jiang Xiaohu was silent for a long time, then suddenly looked at her and sighed: "Actually, it's useless for them to get the baby." "why?" "Because that treasure has a secret, no one else can take it away." "Secret?" Miss Lan was stunned, then waved her hand, "Don't worry!"

Jiang Xiaohu was afraid: "But they will force me to have a baby, what should I do?" what to do?Miss Lan rested her chin in her hands, sat on a pile of straw and felt worried. In the end, she finally made up her mind and took Jiang Xiaohu's hand and told her, "Xiaohu, let's pretend we don't know anything, as long as you We'll be all right if we don't tell the whereabouts of that baby." Jiang Xiaohu nodded immediately: "Okay." Seeing that he agreed, Miss Lan felt relieved and remembered another thing: "I seem to be hungry." "Then let's go eat."

"Do you still have money?" "No." The high courtyard wall looks like a wealthy family. Almost half of the lush branches and leaves stick out of the wall. Under the shade of greenery, there is a person lying on the top of the wall and a person standing at the bottom of the wall. "Honey, is this the house?" "Look at how big this yard is, it must be rich." It turned out that the two were penniless. After thinking hard, Miss Lan came up with a clever plan based on what she heard at home, that is to rob the rich and help the poor. Although there are only two poor people who need relief, it is still possible Barely able to reach a consensus with Jiang Xiaohu. This kind of thing should have happened at night, but unfortunately, the two of them couldn't wait, so Miss Lan couldn't care about her status anymore, and ran up the fence of other people's house at the risk of danger. It was the first time she did this kind of thing, she was also very guilty, she turned her head to look at Jiang Xiaohu under the wall: "It's not good for us to be like this...?" Jiang Xiaohu was afraid, and nodded straightly: "Such a big family, there must be a lot of people, don't let them see." Hearing what he said, Miss Lan also became worried, and looked inside: "It seems that there are really many people, what should I do?" "Honey, let's change one." "it is good." I walked through several rich and noble houses in a row, and there were people coming and going. Of course, with Lan Xinyue's skills, it would be easy to grab a few taels of silver in front of those servants, but how could our Miss Lan do such a thing? Lose your identity and face?So the sun has risen to the top of the head, and the two of them haven't eaten breakfast yet. "Honey, let's not look for a big family anymore," Jiang Xiaohu leaned against the low wall, "There is no one here." "But look at how poor their house is, they must have no money." Miss Lan blinked, embarrassed. "There are strings of money on the table inside." Jiang Xiaohu's eyes lit up. "No!" Miss Lan got angry and twisted his ears with her hands. "Only bullies bully the poor. We rob the rich and give to the poor. If we even rob such poor people, wouldn't we be villains!" "Oh, my wife is right, right!" An hour later. "Xiaohu, I'm hungry." Miss Lan called weakly. Jiang Xiaohu hurriedly supported her: "My wife." Miss Lan looked at him, almost crying: "I can't walk anymore." Jiang Xiaohu had no choice but to look at her for a long time, before he looked at her and said softly, "Honey, look at this...how about I go to Yongcui Tower to get you something to eat..." "Don't go!" Miss Lan jumped up and glared at him, "Let's go, take a look over there." The hard work paid off, and the two had good luck this time. They found a suitable family as the target of robbery in less than a stick of incense. This house is half-new and not old. The steps of the big bluestone slabs look neat and clean. It is neither too poor nor too rich. Most importantly, the door is half-opened, and it is quiet inside without anyone guarding it. Miss Lan was overjoyed, and immediately made a decision: "This is the one!" Jiang Xiaohu was also happy: "This is the one!" "I have lightness skills, so I can run fast," Miss Lan ordered him, "You just stand here and wait, I'll go in quietly to have a look first." "it is good." With a little tiptoe, Miss Lan flew up the stone steps like a swallow, looked inside quietly, and then opened the door and walked in. After less than half a cup of tea, she leaned out from the door and looked at the door happily. Jiang Xiaohu waved. "Xiaohu, come and look for him, there's no one there!" Jiang Xiaohu had never been a thief before, so when he saw his wife calling, he immediately slipped over. The room is very tidy and clean, and there are a lot of things to display. The wooden tables, chairs, and cabinets are all complete. Although the quality is average, it is considered very good to be able to buy these in an ordinary house. There are also a few pictures on the wall In the New Year's pictures of the old year, I don't know why the owner of this household was so lax in his precautions, and he didn't close the door when he went out in broad daylight. Miss Lan suddenly remembered something, and she was anxious: "Xiaohu, if they don't close the door, they will definitely be back soon. Let's get some money and leave." Jiang Xiaohu nodded: "Okay." The two randomly searched for it by the bedside, in the drawers, and in the cabinet. After a long time, Jiang Xiaohu finally dug out two ingots of silver from the cabinet. "Enough is enough," Miss Lan held up the silver, very happy, "These two ingots of silver are at least thirty or forty taels, we can go to eat now." Jiang Xiaohule: "Take it quickly, it will be enough for us to eat for a long time." "I don't take it, we have to pay it back when we make money," Miss Lan corrected earnestly, after thinking about it, she put one of the ingots back into the cabinet, "Let's leave some for them, maybe they will use it too. " Jiang Xiaohu looked at her and smiled: "My wife is right." "Let's go." The two quickly restored everything in the house to its original state, then went out, ran down the steps, and happily ran out of the courtyard, but at this moment, an old woman came in head-on. The old woman was really too old, with white hair that could not tell her age, her back was hunched, her breath was out of breath, and her legs were shaking. Even though she was on crutches, it was still very difficult for her to walk. Miss Lan panicked: "Xiaohu, she's back!" Jiang Xiaohu also seemed to see a ghost, pulled her up and left: "Leave her alone, let's go." "Cough... there is no hope for such an unfilial thing." The old woman seemed very sad, with snot and tears, and walked towards the door crying, "It's better to buy a coffin with money." Probably due to old eyesight, she didn't notice that there were two thieves standing in the yard, and went straight into the house. The two had already walked to the door, but when they heard the crying, Miss Lan couldn't help but stop and hesitated: "Xiaohu, look at her so pitiful, we still take her money..." "She's fine," Jiang Xiaohu interrupted impatiently, "Hurry up, hurry up, you'll be in bad luck if you mess with her." Hearing this, Miss Lan shook off his hand angrily: "What are you talking about!" Jiang Xiaohu smiled wryly: "Honey, don't tell me, do you want to take the money back and return it to her?" Miss Lan glared at him, and before she had time to say anything, she heard louder crying and coughing from the room, she immediately panicked: "Oh no, she must have found out that money was lost!" After a while, the old woman from before came out crookedly leaning on a walking stick, crying, "Which god damn short-lived stole my money!" She was crying as she walked, as if she was in a hurry to chase the thief, but unfortunately her physical strength was weak, her eyesight was not good, something knocked her feet, she fell to the front of the steps, and her walking stick flew straight away. Miss Lan was shocked, and hurried over to pick up the walking stick for her. "Oh my God!" The old woman sat on the ground and wailed loudly, "You have no conscience, you just leave first, and you don't care about me, and it's not filial to raise a son, cough... It's hard to save some money for the coffin, and now who is it? The perpetrators stole it, ahem...they all come to bully me, an unwanted orphan, oh my god!" Followed by another violent cough. Seeing her crying, her situation becoming more and more pitiful, Miss Lan hesitated for a long time, and couldn't help it anymore, she was cruel, and put the silver and crutches by her hand. Jiang Xiaohu went up to her in a panic and pulled her: "Wife!" "She's so pitiful, are you still human!" Miss Lan was angry, pushed his hand away, ignored him, turned around and walked out of the courtyard door. Looking at her back, Jiang Xiaohu smiled wryly. The old lady next to her finally had enough of crying. She wiped her eyes and reached out to touch the crutch. Unexpectedly, she even grabbed the silver on the ground. La!" Jiang Xiaohu stared straight at her, with a dumbfounding look on Jun's face: "God, why don't you pity me, I'm going to be hungry now, God has no eyes, no eyes!" Suddenly someone else spoke, the old woman on the ground was startled, and rubbed her eyes: "Who are you?" Jiang Xiaohu laughed angrily: "I have a grudge against you?" "It turned out to be a young man," the old woman finally saw clearly what was in front of her, she slowly got up from the ground, patted the dust on her body, and looked at him again with a puzzled expression on her face, "What did you just say, God has no eyes ?” "You are not short of money, why do you want to take my money?" "Is this yours?" The old woman was shocked, and hurriedly turned around to look around, revealing a sudden expression, "Ah, the old woman was blinded and went wrong, young man, thank you for your guidance, thank you!" She covered her mouth and coughed twice, staggered away with a cane on her crutches, and after walking two steps, she suddenly remembered something, turned around and said, "Since the money belongs to you, the old lady should return it to you, but your wife seems to be I feel sorry for the old and the poor, knowing that you took the money, I’m afraid I’ll beat you up, so I’ll do a good deed and collect it for you, and I’ll find that old man to take it in the future.” After talking, he went out with a smile. Jiang Xiaohu stared, speechless for a long time.